Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D.Austin who wrote (6433)	10/7/2001 11:45:35 AM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27714

Jammu Kashmir Islamic Front militants chargesheeted for waging war against Govt of India New Delhi,Sunday, October 07, 2001: Delhi Police has chargesheeted six militants of Jammu Kashmir Islamic Front (JKIF) for allegedly waging war against the Government of India. In its chargesheet filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate A K Sarpal, the Special Cell of Delhi Police has named Feroze Ahmad Mir, Mohammad Sayed Tantrik alias Yusuf, Mohammad Manzoor Mir, Mohammad Lateef Hajaam, Abdul Rashid Gojri and Inderjit Singh Bali accused. Feroze Ahmad Mir and Mohammad Sayed Tantrik have been charged under section 121 (Waging or attempting to wage war or abetting waging of war against government of India), section 121-A (conspiracy to commit offences punishable by section 121) and section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) while the rest four accused have been charged only under section 120-B, IPC. The court has already taken cognizance of the offences against the accused, currently lodged in Tihar Jail, and fixed October 10 for further proceedings in the case. Police had arrested Feroze Ahmad Mir and Tantrik on June 20 from a guest house in the walled city area of the capital and seized Rs 15 lakh from them. Later rest of the accused were arrested from Chandni Chowk area on the basis of their disclosure statements. With arrest of JKIF activists, Police had claimed to have frustrated the outfit's attempts to revive its militant activities in and outside Jammu and Kashmir. JKIF, an offshoot of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), has now been making desperate attempts to revive its cadre and carry out militant activities in the state and in the national capital, police said. (PTI) 12:35 IST

To: D.Austin who wrote (6433)	10/7/2001 11:45:59 AM
From: D.Austin	Respond to of 27714

A FOLLOW UP STORY------------- Nothing Deters Pork Addicts Old habits die hard. Mr. Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service. October 4, 2001 9:25 a.m. Each dollar spent on pork-barrel projects is one less dollar that can be devoted to the War on Terror. This inescapable fact somehow has escaped members of Congress. While senators and representatives swiftly and wisely approved $40 billion in recovery and defense funds after the September 11 Massacre, they quickly relapsed into old habits. Congress again is spending money as recklessly and foolishly as it did on September 10. Even as U.S. warships steam toward the Persian Gulf, Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington-based fiscal watchdog group, has calculated in military terms the opportunity cost of business as usual. Sidewinder missiles sell for $41,300 each, CAGW reports. Tomahawk Cruise Missiles are $1 million a piece while one F-15 fighter jet costs $15 million. Pork projects chew right through cash that could purchase these and other weapons the Pentagon will need to crush the international terror network and its state sponsors. For instance, on September 13, the Senate adopted the Fiscal Year 2002 Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary Appropriations Bill. Consider just several items the Senate approved while the Pentagon and Ground Zero still smoldered: $2 million for the Oregon Groundfish Outreach Program and $850,000 for Chesapeake Bay Oyster Research. Cost: 69 Sidewinders. $6 million for the National Infrastructure Institute in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Cost: Six Cruise Missiles. $204 million for the Advanced Technology Program, a quintessential corporate welfare boondoggle, for which the Bush Administration requested only $13 million. Cost: Thirteen F-15 fighters. Even more maddening is a brand-new bill to expand farm subsidies one year before the existing spending plan expires. The Farm Security Act would increase agricultural pork by $73.1 billion over the next 10 years. Added to the $96.9 billion budget baseline, Uncle Sam would plow $170 billion into the ground through 2011. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R., Tex.) distributed a September 27 "Dear Colleague" letter that promotes this extravagance in stunningly selfish terms. "What's in it for me?" the note asks in bold letters. "The 2001 Farm Bill: From Buffalo, Kansas to Buffalo, New York, there is something for everyone." Indeed, there is. This bill authorizes $101 million for honey producers. The once-terminated wool and mohair program rises again, $202 million strong. Peanut farmers can expect $3.48 billion. This bill also would revive $37.1 billion in "counter-cyclical assistance" which was scrapped in 1996. The U.S. Agriculture Department released a study last month that describes these subsidies as spectacularly wasteful and fundamentally unfair. Forty-seven percent of agricultural payments go to commercial farms with average household incomes of $135,397, more than two and a half times the average American household's $51,855 in earnings. According to the Associated Press, just 10 percent of farm owners shared 63 percent of last year's $27 billion in federal agriculture payments. Media tycoon Ted Turner received farm aid, as did Portland Trailblazer Scottie Pippen. Modestly-paid waitresses and school bus drivers pay twice for such largesse — first through taxes, then again as agricultural price supports hike their grocery bills. This situation has enraged Senator Richard Lugar (R., Ind.). "It's inconceivable that this might be on the House floor next week in the middle of a war," the Senate Agriculture Committee's ranking Republican said September 26. He also rejected the notion that passing a farm bill would guarantee civilian and military food security. "Let's come off of it," Lugar demanded. "To imply somehow we need a farm bill in order to feed our troops, to defend our nation, is ridiculous...We are producing so much, it is coming up around our ears." These legislative hijinks are bad enough in peace time. America is at war. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are kissing their loved ones goodbye and shipping out to face a vicious and bloodthirsty enemy lurking in foreign shadows. Right now, Congress should grow up and stop treating the domestic budget as a political Toys 'R Us. Americans already are making huge sacrifices. Weak tourist revenues have lowered the curtains on five Broadway shows. Hotel beds have gone empty as conferences have been canceled, and weddings have been scaled back or postponed. Major U.S. airlines have fired 87,000 employees since terror struck. Amid such national belt-tightening, it is beyond ugly to watch public servants on Capitol Hill loosen their belts as their pork-laden bellies swell. If the American people must live with less right now, so must their representatives. nationalreview.com

To: D.Austin who wrote (6433)	10/7/2001 11:31:10 PM
From: Davy Crockett	Respond to of 27714

msnbc.com My point completely... what seems a long, long time ago, before I went to SI jail for expressing my views... (note the date & time) and Message 16331720 Message 16331900 To:Sting-Ray_57 who wrote (14) From: svenlar Tuesday, Sep 11, 2001 1:11 PM Respond to of 6519 I'm sorry u might not realize that BIN LANDEN & associates operate not only from the countries that I mentioned but many others. This unfortunately may become a religious war, before this is over. Obviously not good & if u remember your history... I suggest that u check it out. No reason to change my opinion Regards, Peter